Domain authority
thesun.co.uk domain authority
thesun.co.uk has a domain authority score of 71 out of 100 (high), based on 50,208 referring domains and a web graph rank of 1,098 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 5K websites (Chrome).
All metrics for thesun.co.uk
| Authority score | 71 / 100 |
|---|---|
| Referring domains | 50,208 |
| Web graph rank (harmonic centrality) | #1,098 (top 0.01%) |
| PageRank position | #1,990 |
| Subdomains seen in the crawl | 46 |
| Majestic Million rank | #692 |
| Majestic referring subnets / IPs | 19,364 / 44,657 |
| Traffic rank | Top 5K websites (Chrome) |
| Position by authority in our top 20,000 | #696 |
How the authority score is calculated
The score is the average of two parts, each from 0 to 100:
- Rank part:
100 × (1 − log10(rank) / log10(N))^0.6, where rank is the domain's harmonic centrality position in the Common Crawl web graph (how close it is to every other domain through links) and N is the number of ranked domains (133,241,980). - Link part:
100 × log10(1 + referring domains) / 7, so 10 million referring domains = 100.
For this domain: rank part 75.5 (web graph rank 1,098 of 133,241,980), link part 67.2 (50,208 referring domains), average 71.3, rounded to 71.
It is consistent across all 120 million domains in the data, so it is good for ranking and filtering lists. It is not Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating. Referring domains count other domains that link to this one, not individual backlinks; no list of linking pages is included.
Domains with a similar authority score
| # | Domain | Authority | Referring domains | Web graph rank | Traffic rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 692 | matomo.org | 71 | 51,890 | 1,670 | Top 1M websites (Chrome) |
| 693 | washington.edu | 71 | 51,709 | 1,338 | Top 500K websites (Chrome) |
| 694 | hsforms.com | 71 | 51,281 | 1,458 | Top 100K websites (Chrome) |
| 695 | binance.com | 71 | 50,664 | 1,674 | Top 5K websites (Chrome) |
| 697 | fiverr.com | 71 | 50,133 | 1,353 | Top 1K websites (Chrome) |
| 698 | azurewebsites.net | 71 | 49,742 | 1,108 | Top 10K websites (Chrome) |
| 699 | gizmodo.com | 71 | 49,626 | 1,290 | Top 50K websites (Chrome) |
| 700 | gumroad.com | 71 | 49,511 | 1,350 | Top 10K websites (Chrome) |
Tech stack
thesun.co.uk is built with WordPress, Twemoji, Tealium, Google Publisher Tag, Prebid.js, Nginx, PHP and OneSignal and 3 more (detected from the public home page). Full tech stack of thesun.co.uk →
AI crawler policy
AI crawler policy: Blocks some AI search. GPTBot is partially blocked, ClaudeBot is blocked and PerplexityBot is blocked in its robots.txt (checked 2026-10-02). Does thesun.co.uk block GPTBot? →
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FAQ
- What is the domain authority of thesun.co.uk?
- thesun.co.uk has a domain authority score of 71 out of 100 (high), based on 50,208 referring domains and a web graph rank of 1,098 among 133 million domains; its traffic rank is Top 5K websites (Chrome). The score is our own open-data metric (0-100) and is not Moz Domain Authority or Ahrefs Domain Rating.
- How many backlinks does thesun.co.uk have?
- thesun.co.uk is linked to from 50,208 other domains in the Common Crawl web graph (release cc-main-2026-jul-aug-sep). This counts referring domains, not individual backlinks, and Common Crawl does not see the whole web, so commercial tools that crawl more will show larger numbers.
- How does thesun.co.uk rank among all websites?
- Its web graph rank (harmonic centrality) is 1,098 out of 133,241,980 ranked domains, which puts it in the top 0.01%. Its PageRank position is 1,990. Majestic Million ranks it #692.
- Is the thesun.co.uk authority score the same as Moz DA or Ahrefs DR?
- No. It is an independent score computed from open data (Common Crawl, Majestic Million, Chrome UX Report). It is consistent across all domains, so it works for comparing and filtering sites, but the numbers will not match the commercial tools.